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authorEric Anholt <[email protected]>2018-12-12 11:11:07 -0800
committerEric Anholt <[email protected]>2018-12-19 12:49:17 -0800
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docs: Add an encouraging note about providing reviews and acks.
Across several projects I've seen new contributors say "I wasn't sure if I should provide a review tag since I'm not really an expert in this area." Everyone I know already applies some implicit weighting to reviews from different people, so encourage participation. Reviewed-by: Dylan Baker <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Ian Romanick <[email protected]>
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into commits in a MR before it is merged.
</p>
+<p>
+Review by non-experts is encouraged. Understanding how someone else
+goes about solving a problem is a great way to learn your way around
+the project. The submitter is expected to evaluate whether they have
+an appropriate amount of review feedback from people who also
+understand the code before merging their patches.
+</p>
+
<h2 id="nominations">Nominating a commit for a stable branch</h2>
<p>